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Francis Rex Parrington FRS (20 Feb 1905 - 17 Apr 1981) was a British vertebrate palaeontologist and comparative anatomist who played an important role at the University of Cambridge's Zoology Department in the 1950s and 1960s.[1]
He was born in Bromborough, Cheshire, son of brewer Frank Parrington.
The dinosaur Nyasasaurus parringtoni is named after him.
He received the Festschrift Studies In Vertebrate Evolution: Essays Presented To Dr. F.R. Parrington, F.R.S. in 1972.
His books include:
- On the upper Triassic mammals (1971)
- Studies in vertebrate evolution (co-author, 1972)
- A Further account of the triassic mammals (1978)
References
[edit]- ^ Charig, A. J., "Francis Rex Parrington", Biographical Memoirs of Fellows of the Royal Society, Vol. 36, (Dec., 1990), pp. 360-378